Best universities for computer science in the World Based on THE World University Rankings 2018 by Subject:computer science |
| Rank | University | Location |
| 1 | Stanford University | United States |
| 2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States |
| 3 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom |
| 4 | ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich | Switzerland |
| 5 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom |
| 6= | California Institute of Technology | United States |
| 6= | Carnegie Mellon University | United States |
| 8 | Georgia Institute of Technology | United States |
| 9 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom |
| 10 | école Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | Switzerland |
| 11 | Harvard University | United States |
| 12 | Princeton University | United States |
| 13 | National University of Singapore | Singapore |
| 14 | University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom |
| 15 | Cornell University | United States |
| 16 | Technical University of Munich | Germany |
| 17 | University of Washington | United States |
| 18 | University College London | United Kingdom |
| 19 | Columbia University | United States |
| 20 | Tsinghua University | China |
| 21 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | United States |
| 22 | University of Toronto | Canada |
| 23 | University of Pennsylvania | United States |
| 24 | University of California, San Diego | United States |
| 25 | Peking University | China |
| 26 | University of Texas at Austin | United States |
| 27 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | United States |
| 28= | University of British Columbia | Canada |
| 28= | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Hong Kong |
| 30 | University of Southern California | United States |
| 31 | Nanyang Technological University | Singapore |
| 32 | University of Maryland, College Park | United States |
| 33 | University of Waterloo | Canada |
| 34 | University of Chicago | United States |
| 35 | University of Tokyo | Japan |
| 36 | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | Germany |
| 37 | RWTH Aachen University | Germany |
| 38 | Chinese University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
| 39 | University of Melbourne | Australia |
| 40 | Seoul National University | South Korea |
| 41 | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) | South Korea |
| 42= | Delft University of Technology | Netherlands |
| 42= | Technical University of Berlin | Germany |
| 44 | University of California, Santa Barbara | United States |
| 45= | University of Massachusetts | United States |
| 45= | Zhejiang University | China |
| 47 | LMU Munich | Germany |
| 48 | Brown University | United States |
| 49 | University of California, Irvine | United States |
| 50 | KU Leuven | Belgium |
| 51 | Kyoto University | Japan |
| 52 | Rice University | United States |
| 53 | National Taiwan University | Taiwan |
| 54 | KTH Royal Institute of Technology | Sweden |
| 55 | University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
| 56 | University of Montreal | Canada |
| 57 | Technion Israel Institute of Technology | Israel |
| 58= | University of Freiburg | Germany |
| 58= | Nanjing University | China |
| 60 | Lomonosov Moscow State University | Russian Federation |
| 61= | King’s College London | United Kingdom |
| 61= | Vienna University of Technology | Austria |
| 63 | University of Manchester | United Kingdom |
| 64 | Eindhoven University of Technology | Netherlands |
| 65 | Heidelberg University | Germany |
| 66 | University of Amsterdam | Netherlands |
| 67 | Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology | Russian Federation |
| 68= | Pennsylvania State University | United States |
| 68= | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | China |
| 70 | école Polytechnique | France |
| 71 | University of Science and Technology of China | China |
| 72= | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | United States |
| 72= | Technical University of Darmstadt | Germany |
| 74= | City University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
| 74= | University of Twente | Netherlands |
| 76 | ITMO University | Russian Federation |
| 77 | Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL Research University Paris | France |
| 78 | University of Luxembourg | Luxembourg |
| 79 | Arizona State University | United States |
| 80 | Aarhus University | Denmark |
| 81= | University of Bonn | Germany |
| 81= | University of Stuttgart | Germany |
| 83= | Australian National University | Australia |
| 83= | University of Technology Sydney | Australia |
| 85 | University of Southampton | United Kingdom |
| 86= | University of Geneva | Switzerland |
| 86= | University of Pittsburgh | United States |
| 88= | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Hong Kong |
| 88= | Tel Aviv University | Israel |
| 90 | Aalto University | Finland |
| 91 | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey | United States |
| 92 | Dartmouth College | United States |
| 93 | University of Helsinki | Finland |
| 94 | Stony Brook University | United States |
| 95= | McGill University | Canada |
| 95= | Polytechnic University of Milan | Italy |
| 97 | University of Minnesota | United States |
| 98= | Newcastle University | United Kingdom |
| 98= | Queensland University of Technology | Australia |
| 100 | Washington University in St Louis | United States |
| 101-125 | Aalborg University | Denmark |
| 101-125 | University of Alberta | Canada |
| 101-125 | University of Bologna | Italy |
| 101-125 | University of Bristol | United Kingdom |
| 101-125 | University of California, Santa Cruz | United States |
| 101-125 | Chalmers University of Technology | Sweden |
| 101-125 | école Normale Supérieure de Lyon | France |
| 101-125 | University of Erlangen-Nuremberg | Germany |
| 101-125 | University of Glasgow | United Kingdom |
| 101-125 | University of Groningen | Netherlands |
| 101-125 | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Israel |
| 101-125 | Humboldt University of Berlin | Germany |
| 101-125 | Indiana University | United States |
| 101-125 | Indian Institute of Science | India |
| 101-125 | University of New South Wales | Australia |
| 101-125 | Osaka University | Japan |
| 101-125 | Polytechnic University of Catalonia | Spain |
| 101-125 | Queen Mary University of London | United Kingdom |
| 101-125 | University of Queensland | Australia |
| 101-125 | University of Sheffield | United Kingdom |
| 101-125 | Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) | South Korea |
| 101-125 | University of Sydney | Australia |
| 101-125 | University of Trento | Italy |
| 101-125 | University of Utah | United States |
| 101-125 | University of Warwick | United Kingdom |
| 126-150 | University of Adelaide | Australia |
| 126-150 | University at Buffalo | United States |
| 126-150 | University of California, Riverside | United States |
| 126-150 | University of Colorado Boulder | United States |
| 126-150 | Durham University | United Kingdom |
| 126-150 | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay | India |
| 126-150 | Indian Institute of Technology Delhi | India |
| 126-150 | Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur | India |
| 126-150 | Korea University | South Korea |
| 126-150 | Lancaster University | United Kingdom |
| 126-150 | Université Catholique de Louvain | Belgium |
| 126-150 | University of Malaya | Malaysia |
| 126-150 | McMaster University | Canada |
| 126-150 | National Tsing Hua University | Taiwan |
| 126-150 | North Carolina State University | United States |
| 126-150 | Northeastern University | United States |
| 126-150 | University of Nottingham | United Kingdom |
| 126-150 | Ohio State University | United States |
| 126-150 | University of Oulu | Finland |
| 126-150 | University of Potsdam | Germany |
| 126-150 | Royal Holloway, University of London | United Kingdom |
| 126-150 | Ruhr University Bochum | Germany |
| 126-150 | Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna | Italy |
| 126-150 | University of Virginia | United States |
| 126-150 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | United States |
| 126-150 | Xi’an Jiaotong University | China |
| 151-175 | University of Aberdeen | United Kingdom |
| 151-175 | Bar-Ilan University | Israel |
| 151-175 | University of Birmingham | United Kingdom |
| 151-175 | University of Delaware | United States |
| 151-175 | Technical University of Denmark | Denmark |
| 151-175 | University of Florida | United States |
| 151-175 | Free University of Berlin | Germany |
| 151-175 | Fudan University | China |
| 151-175 | Ghent University | Belgium |
| 151-175 | University of Innsbruck | Austria |
| 151-175 | King Abdulaziz University | Saudi Arabia |
| 151-175 | University of Mannheim | Germany |
| 151-175 | National Chiao Tung University | Taiwan |
| 151-175 | University of Passau | Germany |
| 151-175 | Queen’s University Belfast | United Kingdom |
| 151-175 | Sapienza University of Rome | Italy |
| 151-175 | Stockholm University | Sweden |
| 151-175 | Texas A&M University | United States |
| 151-175 | TU Dresden | Germany |
| 151-175 | Ulm University | Germany |
| 151-175 | Uppsala University | Sweden |
| 151-175 | Victoria University | Australia |
| 151-175 | University of Vienna | Austria |
| 151-175 | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | Netherlands |
| 176-200 | University of Arizona | United States |
| 176-200 | University of Bremen | Germany |
| 176-200 | University of Duisburg-Essen | Germany |
| 176-200 | Free University of Bozen-Bolzano | Italy |
| 176-200 | University of G?ttingen | Germany |
| 176-200 | University of Granada | Spain |
| 176-200 | Graz University of Technology | Austria |
| 176-200 | University of Illinois at Chicago | United States |
| 176-200 | Iowa State University | United States |
| 176-200 | University of Liège | Belgium |
| 176-200 | Link?ping University | Sweden |
| 176-200 | University of Macau | Macao |
| 176-200 | Nagoya University | Japan |
| 176-200 | University of Notre Dame | United States |
| 176-200 | University of Pisa | Italy |
| 176-200 | Radboud University Nijmegen | Netherlands |
| 176-200 | Université de Sherbrooke | Canada |
| 176-200 | Simon Fraser University | Canada |
| 176-200 | University of South Australia | Australia |
| 176-200 | University of Surrey | United Kingdom |
| 176-200 | Temple University | United States |
| 176-200 | Trinity College Dublin | Ireland |
| 176-200 | University College Dublin | Ireland |
| 176-200 | University of Western Australia | Australia |
| 176-200 | Wuhan University | China |
| 201-250 | University of Auckland | New Zealand |
| 201-250 | Autonomous University of Barcelona | Spain |
| 201-250 | University of Beira Interior | Portugal |
| 201-250 | University of Bergen | Norway |
| 201-250 | University of Bern | Switzerland |
| 201-250 | Bielefeld University | Germany |
| 201-250 | Binghamton University, State University of New York | United States |
| 201-250 | Bo?azi?i University | Turkey |
| 201-250 | Brunel University London | Italy |
| 201-250 | Cardiff University | United Kingdom |
| 201-250 | Colorado State University | United States |
| 201-250 | University of C?te d’Azur | France |
| 201-250 | University of Essex | United Kingdom |
| 201-250 | Federal University of Minas Gerais | Brazil |
| 201-250 | Hanyang University | South Korea |
| 201-250 | Heriot-Watt University | United Kingdom |
| 201-250 | Hong Kong Baptist University | Hong Kong |
| 201-250 | University of Houston | United States |
| 201-250 | Indian Institute of Technology Madras | India |
| 201-250 | Kyushu University | Japan |
| 201-250 | University of Leeds | United Kingdom |
| 201-250 | Leibniz University of Hanover | Germany |
| 201-250 | University of Leicester | United Kingdom |
| 201-250 | University of Liverpool | United Kingdom |
| 201-250 | Maastricht University | Netherlands |
| 201-250 | University of Münster | Germany |
| 201-250 | National Research Nuclear University MEPhI | Russian Federation |
| 201-250 | New Jersey Institute of Technology | United States |
| 201-250 | University of Oslo | Norway |
| 201-250 | Paris-Sorbonne University – Paris 4 | France |
| 201-250 | Paris-Sud University | France |
| 201-250 | Pontifical Catholic University of Chile | Chile |
| 201-250 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | United States |
| 201-250 | Saint Petersburg State University | Russian Federation |
| 201-250 | Sejong University | South Korea |
| 201-250 | Southeast University | China |
| 201-250 | University of Southern Denmark | Denmark |
| 201-250 | University of St Andrews | United Kingdom |
| 201-250 | Stevens Institute of Technology | United States |
| 201-250 | Syracuse University | United States |
| 201-250 | University of Tartu | Estonia |
| 201-250 | University of Texas at Dallas | United States |
| 201-250 | University of Tübingen | Germany |
| 201-250 | Victoria University of Wellington | New Zealand |
| 201-250 | University of Warsaw | Poland |
| 201-250 | Washington State University | United States |
| 201-250 | Wayne State University | United States |
| 201-250 | University of Würzburg | Germany |
| 201-250 | Yonsei University (Seoul campus) | South Korea |
| 201-250 | University of York | United Kingdom |
| 251-300 | University of Alabama | United States |
| 251-300 | University of Antwerp | Belgium |
| 251-300 | University of Calabria | Italy |
| 251-300 | University of Calgary | Canada |
| 251-300 | University of Catania | Italy |
| 251-300 | University of Coimbra | Portugal |
| 251-300 | University of Crete | Greece |
| 251-300 | University of Cyprus | Cyprus |
| 251-300 | Deakin University | Australia |
| 251-300 | école Normale Supérieure de Cachan | France |
| 251-300 | Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées | France |
| 251-300 | George Washington University | United States |
| 251-300 | Georgia State University | United States |
| 251-300 | Griffith University | Australia |
| 251-300 | University of Hamburg | Germany |
| 251-300 | University of Hawai’i at Mānoa | United States |
| 251-300 | Huazhong University of Science and Technology | China |
| 251-300 | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur | India |
| 251-300 | University of Jaén | Spain |
| 251-300 | Johannes Kepler University of Linz | Austria |
| 251-300 | University of Kaiserslautern | Germany |
| 251-300 | University of Kent | United Kingdom |
| 251-300 | University of Konstanz | Germany |
| 251-300 | La Trobe University | Australia |
| 251-300 | Lehigh University | United States |
| 251-300 | Université Libre de Bruxelles | Belgium |
| 251-300 | Middlesex University | United Kingdom |
| 251-300 | Monash University | Australia |
| 251-300 | University of Murcia | Spain |
| 251-300 | National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) | Taiwan |
| 251-300 | National University of Ireland, Galway | Ireland |
| 251-300 | National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (Taiwan Tech) | Taiwan |
| 251-300 | University of Newcastle | United Kingdom |
| 251-300 | Norwegian University of Science and Technology | Norway |
| 251-300 | Old Dominion University | United States |
| 251-300 | The Open University | United Kingdom |
| 251-300 | University of Ottawa | Canada |
| 251-300 | University of Padua | Italy |
| 251-300 | University of Parma | Italy |
| 251-300 | Qatar University | Qatar |
| 251-300 | Queen’s University | Canada |
| 251-300 | RMIT University | Australia |
| 251-300 | University of Rovira i Virgili | Spain |
| 251-300 | Sabanc University | Turkey |
| 251-300 | University of Salerno | Italy |
| 251-300 | Technical University of Dortmund | Germany |
| 251-300 | University of Texas at San Antonio | United States |
| 251-300 | Tohoku University | Japan |
| 251-300 | Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology | outh Korea |
| 251-300 | Utrecht University | Netherlands |
| 251-300 | Waseda University | Japan |
| 251-300 | University of Wollongong | Australia |